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#1 2006-06-24 18:06:34

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'out of the frying pan and into the fryer' for '...fire"

Fryers and fires are equally inhospitable. About 100 ghits:

Well, the adage, ‘out of the frying pan and into the fryer’ is most apt for his M6 experience.
www.thebmwblog.com/

if u impeach bush, cheney takes the office… its like jumping out of the frying pan and into the fryer…
www.xmfan.com/viewtopic.php?t=59652

... three year stint as Staff Attorney—jumping out of the frying pan and into the fryer as she and her husband welcome their first baby later this year . ...
www.nmenvirolaw.org/news/gfrwinter04/news104.htm

Things will turn around soon and you may end up going from the frying pan and into the fryer if you act too hastily!!
archive.avsforum.com/avs-vb/history/topic/305832-1.html

Little does he know he’s only jumping out of the frying pan and into the fryer as the villagers aren’t interested in helping Marc escape…
www.joehorror.com/0000150.html

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